The discussion rages on. Where should a company use virtualization storage solutions? It started on the server, which gave us freedom of storage devices but ate up too many CPU cycles. Next, ...

While there are some software products that are appliance-agnostic, most vendors bundle the virtualization software with their own storage. In order to make a fair comparison, CRN Test Center ...

Typically, end users are not interested in the physical aspects of the storage serving their applications (i.e. seek times, how many disks are in a string, etc.). What they do care about are the ...

Pick any business or government organisation at random and there’s a good chance that they are saving money by using server virtualization. However, as is now becoming clear, there is also a chance ...

The initial approach to storage virtualization, which has been around for years, was to address it in the storage-area network because the SAN sat between the storage and servers, and would cause the ...

Here’s a look at the top storage virtualization vendors, their products, pricing and sample customers. Product: IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 4.3 Services provided: IBM System Storage SAN ...

Integrating storage within a virtual environment can be complex. Tough decisions need to be made to get the balance of features right, in addition to the performance, reliability, cost, management and ...

It’s almost an axiom that one can never have too much storage capacity. Year after year enterprises generate mountains of data requiring new storage capacity. In practice, however, the average ...

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As storage environments evolve with hybrid, cloud, and software-defined infrastructure, the risk of insider threats remains one of the most underestimated dangers to enterprise data security At ...